Se wyrtūn is nū stillu, and his wegas sind oferurnen mid wēodum gēares þe ǣr wæs. Se geat hlinaþ on his heorre, and þā stānstæpas sind mid gefeallenum lēafum bewrigene. Ǣr weardode sēo Cwēn þās rǣwa bēana and wīnbōga, hire earmas fulle windla lætsumeres sumeres codda and rīpra codda þe mid carum handum wǣron tōsniþene. Fuglas sungon on mōrberigtrēowum, and se lyft smæcte wearmes moldes. Nū, þā sēo Cwēn is āwend, weaxeþ þæt land wild, and se wæstm ne fint his stōw æt þām bēode.
On heortan þisses wyrtūnes geaf strang trēow hwīlum sceadu, his coddas hefige hangigende. On feorrum landum rīst þis trēow ofer þone underscrōb, and his brādan lēaf scildaþ þone grund wiþ heardre sunnan. Þā coddas, rūge and hryfode, hȳdaþ innan heora heardum scellum māþm þe fērende, cȳpmenn, and scēopas gelīce sēcaþ. On monsunwedre drincaþ þā wyrtruman dēope, lām clīþig on bǣrum fōtum þā hwīle þe wyrcendas þone rīp gaderiaþ. Feor heonan, on tūnum geþryccedum betwēonan ēam and wudufæstenne, sind þās coddas tōsniþene and on mattum ālegde tō drȳgenne under þām ungewissum heofone.
Lange ǣr fōron þās sǣd be burnan and be scipe, geþacod on cistum gebundenum tō feorrum cȳpingum. Hīe fōron þurh handa sǣmanna and cȳpmanna, and fundon weg intō cycenum þær gewyrtode drencas stēmdon on clǣmcroccum. On æþelum hiredum drāf swæcc ābræddra bēana þurh tigolum heallum, mid hlyde pilstæfes þe wiþ myrþ gnād. Ofer tīd wǣron þā sǣd āþrycced and gemenged, āgoten on trēowene moldas, bewunden on papere mid cræftigum fingrum. Hīe wurdon tācn þe æt symbelum wǣron gehwierfed, and smale wlite gefealdene on sculdorscrūd oþþe behȳdede on scrīnbēames drāfe.
On stillre gymeleaste þæs wyrtūnes biþ wana begīmennes gefrēded. Þā windlas sind æmtige, sēo eorþe ungewend. Þā tōl, spadu, seax, and lȳtel spadu, restaþ under þynnum filme dūstes. Sēo hefige frōfor helmes þæs wyrtūnes þrycþ nū niþer, gemynd þæt genyht sceal bēon gelōcod, and gifa ne gaderiaþ hīe selfe. Se rīp, ungaderod, slīdeþ āweg. Coddas rotiaþ on þām wǣtan, sǣd sind mid æmettum āweg boren, and puls þāra tīda weorþ wāc.
Þēah is of þissum ilcum sǣdum lār. Ēac þonne rīpas sind forlorene and sēo cycene stillu, wunaþ gemynd wærmþe. Stycce wæstmes, gedrȳged and bitere, mæg bēon gegrunden and geswētod, gewend mid geþyldigum handum tō frōfre wērigum gāste. Searucræft þǣre cycene edlæcþ þā wendunge þe hwīlum of þǣre libbendar eorþan wæs gelōcod. Þā fæt þe drenc on ealdum hiredum heoldon, and þā sticcu on fōlie bewunden on hīredcystum, spyrjaþ ealle heora cynn tō þissum gymeleasum coddum.
Tōdæg meaht þū stæppan on þone forgietnan wyrtūn and ǣnigne gefeallenne codd gaderian, þēah hit ān sīe on gemynde. Þū meaht þīne handa ymb crocc gewyrtodes drences wearmian, and þone swæcc gīeman þe rīst. Wrīt ærendgewrit sumum feor, and belūc smælne bitan swā dǣd sibbe. Swāpe þæt dūst of þīnum cycentōlum and læt hīe gearu ōþre tīde.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dēopbrūn.
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